The site http://www.rnsoft.com/products/iewebfix/ describes a "fix" to Web pages necessitated by a court case Microsoft has recently lost. Apparently it dates back to a patent on "in-lined" content of the type produced in Web browsers by the <object>, <embed> and <applet> pages. This patent was apparently infringed by Web browsers and Microsoft, is having to preface each invocation of such content by some sort of disclaimer. This will mean that pages having this sort of content will not display unless the reader dismisses these dialogs. This means that many of the pages written for chemical application, whereby 3D molecular coordinates, spectra etc are inlined into a page, will be disrupted by the above procedures. The solution is to replace the direct <object>, <embed> and <applet> HYML codes by Javascript equivalents that write it out dynamically. The above site provides a converter that does this, although one must assume that many "legacy" pages will not be converted, and hence will become "unviewable". This in the first instance on IE, but it seems inevitable that other browsers will have to follow suite. This sorry saga reminds me of the attempts by I think BT to claim that the hyperlink itself was covered by a patent, and the earlier GIF saga whereby royalties on the compression algorithm were payable. Whether this court case over the in-lined patent will do the chemistry and science communities any good remains to be seen; whatever else, it certainly will be disruptive. -- Henry Rzepa. Imperial College, Chemistry Dept. +44 0778 626 8220 +44 020 7594 5804 (Fax)